The General Colour Of The Mountains Of
Grand Canary, Which Rise Peak After Peak Until They Culminate In The
Pico De Las Nieves, Some 6,000 Feet High, Is A Yellowish Red, And
The Air Which Lies Among Their Rocky Crevices And Swathes Their
Softer Sides Is A Lovely Lustrous Blue.
Just before the sudden dark came down, and when the sun was taking a
curve out of the horizon
Of sea, all the clouds gathered round the
three islands, leaving the sky a pure amethyst pink, and as a good-
night to them the sun outlined them with rims of shining gold, and
made the snow-clad Peak of Teneriffe blaze with star-white light.
In a few minutes came the dusk, and as we neared Grand Canary, out
of its cloud-bank gleamed the red flash of the lighthouse on the
Isleta, and in a few more minutes, along the sea level, sparkled the
five miles of irregularly distributed lights of Puerto de la Luz and
the city of Las Palmas.
We reached Sierra Leone at 9 A.M. on the 7th of January, and as the
place is hardly so much in touch with the general public as the
Canaries are {14} I may perhaps venture to go more into details
regarding it. The harbour is formed by the long low strip of land
to the north called the Bullam shore, and to the south by the
peninsula terminating in Cape Sierra Leone, a sandy promontory at
the end of which is situated a lighthouse of irregular habits.
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